How Is President Trump These Days? Let's Take a Look at Some Recent Tweets.

In these times, it behooves us, unfortunately or not, to monitor Donald Trump's Twitter account. The president does not seem all that well, you see. He spent last night treating thousands of Boy Scouts to stories about yachting and Fake News, and a New York Times interview last week went off the rails as soon as it left the station. All the while, President Trump has been uploading his increasingly scrambled consciousness into the Tweet Machine, jumping from healthcare to Russia to The Fake News Media with a seamless lack of hinge. Let's look at what he's been up to in the Twittersphere over the past four days.

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Our story begins at 6:30 a.m. Saturdaymorning, when the president wrongly implied Amazon owns The Washington Post—Jeff Bezos owns both, but they are separate businesses—with the insinuation that Amazon could be made to suffer if the Post's critical reporting continues:

A new INTELLIGENCE LEAK from the Amazon Washington Post,this time against A.G. Jeff Sessions.These illegal leaks, like Comey's, must stop!

Then he spread a swiftly debunked Fox News story—a genuine piece of Fake News—as soon as he saw it on Fox & Friends, where, like many 71-year-olds, the leader of the free world gets much of his information:

The Failing New York Times foiled U.S. attempt to kill the single most wanted terrorist,Al-Baghdadi.Their sick agenda over National Security

As the Russia investigation continues to unfold, speculation has already begun that the president could opt to pardon his staff, his family, or even himself if the situation requires. That the president is already sounding that out is concerning.

Then he switched, inevitably, to Hillary Clinton:

So many people are asking why isn't the A.G. or Special Council looking at the many Hillary Clinton or Comey crimes. 33,000 e-mails deleted?

But he just said Republicans aren't coming up with the goods on healthcare after seven years. Now Democrats have no ideas? The Affordable Care Act was their idea. This tweet came less than two hours after the initial jab at "the Amazon Washington Post," one of 10 in that period.

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The next day, in an unusual bout of afternoon tweeting, the assault on reality resumed. It's a Witch Hunt!

As the phony Russian Witch Hunt continues, two groups are laughing at this excuse for a lost election taking hold, Democrats and Russians!

While Schiff has done a lot of interviews, he's also the lead Democrat on a committee investigating whether members of the president's campaign colluded with Russian officials. He's kind of in-demand right now.

Next up was a batch of tweets incorporating photos and videos, so we can safely assume those came from staff. This one, not so much:

There is no evidence, as you might expect, for any of this. The president is speculating wildly on Twitter that one of the nation's two leading newspapers is actually the lobbying arm of a major retailer.

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Then came Tuesday morning—and Hannity!

Ukrainian efforts to sabotage Trump campaign - "quietly working to boost Clinton." So where is the investigation A.G. @seanhannity

It then came time to attack his own attorney general, Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III, whom he previously described as "beleaguered." The intent seems to be to get Sessions to resign on his own, rather than have Trump fire the attorney general after he fired the FBI director and threatened the assistant attorney general and the acting FBI director and the special counsel—all of whom are involved in investigating him.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions has taken a VERY weak position on Hillary Clinton crimes (where are E-mails & DNC server) & Intel leakers!

That was particularly classy as it directly preceded, by six minutes, a tweet about John McCain, who was actually tortured in a Vietnamese prison camp, and whom Trump once infamously derided as a non-hero during the campaign.

So great that John McCain is coming back to vote. Brave - American hero! Thank you John.

Trump has never apologized for the campaign comment, but now that McCain might vote for the motion to proceed on the Double Secret Healthcare Bill, he has the president's favor. Trump then applauded the Son-in-Law-in-Chief, comparing the investigation into his activities during the campaign—Jared Kushner was a senior-level campaign operative and has moved on to become the Secretary of Everything—to an investigation into Trump's 11-year-old son.

Jared Kushner did very well yesterday in proving he did not collude with the Russians. Witch Hunt. Next up, 11 year old Barron Trump!

Taken with Trump's public appearances since last week, this was an alarming pattern of behavior. Is it really that much of a surprise that the American Psychiatric Association, which has long prohibited its members from discussing public officials' mental health through what's known as the Goldwater Rule and reaffirmed that policy as recently as March, announced today that it was scrapping the ban after more than half a century?

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